Question about possible mmc and hcg levels

For those of you who had ultrasounds where there was no heartbeat and baby everything was measuring small did your hcg levels continue to go up and you still miscarried? I had my first US last Thursday at 7w 5d and Dr. said he only saw the gest sac, yolk sac, and start of a fetal pole. I know my dates were right because I was charting and got a bfp 8dpo.I had hcg done Thurs and Sat and levels went from 93,891.8 to 168,224.0. I would think if it was a mc they would be going down. Anyone have any experience with this?

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I don't have experience with this but I'd agree with you that increasing HGC seems like a good sign. I know of many people including myself who knew their ovulation date and the baby still measured much younger. The most I've seen so far is two weeks younger. What your us shows seems okay for 5 weeks 5 days. I bet your baby is just younger than you think. Did the doc say what the baby measured? I've heard that us dating is based on 2 assumptions: 1. It takes 1 week for baby to get to the uterus and 2. it takes 1 week to fully implant and yet there are many people where it takes longer then that and thus dating is off from what we expect.

My HCG was very high but it was declining very slowly. Everywhere I looked said that if your HCG was still rising then to keep your hope alive until something changes. Try to wait it out if you can.

On the other hand, there is such a thing as a molar and partial molar pregnancy in which the pregnancy tissue grows out of control and continues to produce HCG, even when the baby has died. It can become cancerous. It can be detected on an ultrasound. I had to have a second and third opinion because my ultrasound appeared partial molar and I had been waiting 6-7 weeks with no miscrriage/bleeding happening. Mine turned out fine, but they were very serious when they brought it up.

When I had my MC I was 12 wks baby measured to be 7 weeks. I had used a different dr with high tech US machine & she saw baby at 7 wks & I was 7 wks at the time (dec. 10). Well the day I had my MC (Jan. 3) 12 wks. I went to my baby dr I used for my son & he could see no baby I went to the hospital & had a better US & the tech could see baby but no HB. So it could be your drs machine is not seeing the baby. Also I have a comma shaped cervix which most womens are L shaped. & this also makes it harder to see the baby at early stages because sometimes it shadows. I really hope this was helpful. Your HCG levels sound good! Usually that's the first sign. Wish you the best of luck on a happy healthy pregnancey:)
Corey

Thank you ladies for your input. My Dr. is the one who actually did the US which I thought was strange because a tech always did with my pregnancy. (same Dr.) He used a small portable machine. I have been told multiple times that I have a tilted uterus so Im really hoping between the machine and Dr. he just didn't see much. He did TV and abdominal. He didn't measure anything. I have a follow up US on Monday. I hope its with a tech and their nice machine in the US room! I just wish Monday would hurry up and get here!